“When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall.”
“When you could dissect something and find all the answers, you could find all the wrong ones”
“But first, my friends, I need you to do something for me. We have two spies in the back of the auditorium.”
“When you are new at something, you need to start creating.”
“Sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.”
“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.”